Re: Setting up the group: GitHub repo

Yes, my concern was that important, archival information would be locked into a service that could change or disappear in the future -- that essentially the discussions would not be truly open.

Thanks for the explanation.

Regards,
Christopher


> On Sep 3, 2020, at 9:59 PM, 梁海 Liang Hai <lianghai@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Christopher,
> 
>> Is using GitHub, a proprietary service, really the best place to “manage discussion threads, rather than emails”?
> 
> It’s not quite clear what “a proprietary service” suggests. Are you worried about participants unwilling to sign up on a proprietary service, or about GitHub not allowing third-party long-term archiving of messages?
> 
> The point of using GitHub is for its usability. Mailing list veterans often underestimate how unfriendly a mailing list is to potential new participants (because of both the bad user experience and the difficulty to efficiently browse archived messages to understand contexts). Mailing lists effectively discourage discussions because of their low usability.
> 
> The tools provided by W3C only further improve GitHub’s usability. We’re not talking about GitHub merely because of those tools. GitHub alone is already significantly better than a mailing list, and GitHub issues can be used a mailing list (and archived as a mailing list) for whoever prefers to work in that way.
> 
> Best,
> 梁海 Liang Hai
> https://lianghai.github.io
> 
>> On Sep 4, 2020, at 08:14, Christopher Slye <christopher@theslyes.com> wrote:
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>> Is using GitHub, a proprietary service, really the best place to “manage discussion threads, rather than emails”? Doesn't the W3C have time-tested support for archiving email discussions on its lists? Or do I misunderstand?
>> 
>> -Christopher
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>> 
>>> On Sep 3, 2020, at 9:36 AM, r12a <ishida@w3.org> wrote:
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>>> folks, 
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>>> I highly recommend using GitHub issues to manage discussion threads, rather than emails, for the CG.
>>> 
>>> I further recommend setting up a GH repo under the W3C domain, since it will come with a bunch of tools the W3C has developed for tracking issues and the like.
>>> 
>>> If you like, i can create such a repo.
>>> 
>>> I have already cleared it with the appropriate people at W3C. If you want to go ahead, i suggest to name the repo 'font-text'.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> let me know,
>>> ri
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